The YPG rejected a Russian offer to deploy its military police/government police in Arab towns YPG occupied near Efrin to deter a Turkish invasion according to the YPG official Nour a-Din Mahmoud to Asharq al-Awsat paper.

Bahjat Abdo, senior commander in the Kurdish YPG forces and the Head of Defence Authority in Afrin: Russians say if we allow the Syrian regime forces enter Afrin, they will stop the Turkish attacks. We drove the Syrian regime out of Afrin five years ago, and it is impossible to allow them back,”